Dear James,

    Hi! It's really nice to hear from you! Thanks for telling me so much about your life, and thanks for the photo. You looked very handsome! I'd also like to be your pen-friend.

    I was born in Shanghai in May 2002, so we're the same age. But I'm 1. 6metres tall, a little taller than you! Playing computer games is also my favourite hobby! And I'm a smart girl and I never let computer games take up(占据)too much time and affect(影响)my studies. Besides, I'm keen on reading and writing I've written several novels Although I can't get them published, I'll keep writing and someday I'll become as famous as J. K. Rowling!

    I have a typical(典型的) Chinese family, which is smaller than yours: my dad my mum and I. Dad is an architect and Mum is an engineer. Their jobs seem interesting, but I don't want to follow their steps and my ambition is, as I told you, to become a well-known writer!

    Four months ago, my grandpa gave me a cute little cat as a birthday present. I love the cat! From now on, you can call him Frank if you like. He is a black and white cat, with two large eyes. He is nine months old and runs around in my room all the time! I enjoy playing with him after school. But my mum isn't very happy, as she has to feed my cat every day. But I think taking care of children's pets is also one of parents' jobs, isn't it?

    I'll enclose a photo of Frank and me in the letter, and I ho I'll like e him, too! Tell me more about yourself when you're free!

    Have a nice weekend, James!

Yours,

Jane

    Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You may1they go to learn languages, P. E. , History, Science and other2. But why do they learn these things?

    We send our children to school to prepare them for the time when they grow up k for3. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life. But is that the only reason why they go to school?

    There is more in education than just learning facts. We go to school to learn how to learn, so that when we leave school we can4to learn. A man who really knows how to learn will always be something new, he will rapidly teach himself how to do it5 the best way. The uneducated person, on the other hand, is6unable to do something new, or does it badly. The purpose of school, therefore, is not to teach languages, Maths, Geography, etc, but to teach pupils the way to learn.

    A king in Africa had a close friend that helped him grow up. The friend had a habit of looking at everything that happened in his life positively(肯定地)and saying, " This is good. "

    One day the king and his friend went out hunting. The friend would prepare the guns for the king. The friend did something wrong in preparing one of the guns, and after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off. On seeing the situation the friend said as usual, "This is good!" The king replied, "No, this is not good!" He was very angry and sent his friend to jail.

    About one year later, the king was hunting in a forest. Cannibals(食人者)caught him and took him to their village. As they were going to kill him, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. They never ate anyone who was less than whole. So they sent the king back.

    When he returned home, he felt sorry for his treatment of his friend. He went quickly to the jail to speak with his friend. "You were right," he said. "It was good that my thumb was blown off. "And he told the friend all that had just happened." And so I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad of me to do this."

    "No," his friend replied, "this is good! " "What do you mean? How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?"

    "If I had not been in jail, I would have been with you, and I would have been eaten!"

The following is for reference only（以下表达仅供参考）

⑴Have you got any friends?

⑵Why do we need friends?

⑶What should friends do?